With tee time reservations now being offered all the time at Rockford Park District courses, golfers no longer have to worry about waiting to tee off. Still, even tee times can’t tell you how crowded the course is ahead of you. That’s why I will once again run my annual list of scheduled league times at Elliot, Sandy Hollow, Ingersoll and Sinnissippi to give golfers who want to play a fast round an idea of when the courses are busiest from Mondays through Thursdays.

Timber Pointe, which makes golfers cross a road to play a hole on both the front and back nines, has one of the lowest percentages of golfers who walk of all the courses in the area. “No more than about five percent,” co-owner J.J. Maville said.

Still, the Belvidere course tries to make it easier for those who do. The course has clearly defined walkways that shorten the distance on four holes: from the No. 5 green to No. 6 tee, from the No. 6 green to No. 7 tee, from No. 10 to 11 and through the woods from the 17th green to the 18th tee.

“Some of our members who enjoy walking the course for health benefits have asked for these shortcuts,” Maville said. “We try to accommodate any request. No matter how crazy it can sound, if it can make their experience better, we try to do it.”